Drawing
- Title:
- Ride from Manchester to Milford
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2009.026.011 a
- Creator:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Manchester, NH
- Date:
- 1936/01/05
- Description:
- Drawing, Ride from Manchester to Milford, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1936. Pencil on paper. Two views of people in car. Upper center, viewed from behind, sketch of man wearing a fedora, and a woman in a hat and fur coat. Lower right, viewed from behind, man driving wearing a fedora and coat. Pencil inscription at bottom: "ride from Manchester to Milford / Jan. 5, 1936 Sun." Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-10.9 W-8.4 inches
- Provenance:
- George C. Soule (1914-2008) of Manchester, NH, was an artist with the Civilian Conservation Corps in New Hampshire, 1935-1937. He was assigned to draw portraits of CCC workers and to document camp life. He studied art at Yale and became an architect in Manchester. He operated the firm of Soule & Associates from the 1950s through the 1980s. He designed schools, churches, houses, and a wide variety of commercial buildings in southern NH and southern New England. The collection was donated by the children of George Soule.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Patricia, Cynthia, and Peter Soule
- People:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
- Subjects:
- Cars, Automobiles, Automobile driving, Driving, Automobile
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